Taken from their 2005 album ‘Human After All’, ‘Technologic’ is classic Daft Punk: squarely aimed at the dancefloor and full of robotic repetition, their fusion of an irritating yet inescapable childlike vocal, pulsing house beats and vocoder funk. For the nostalgia fans out there, it was also used by Nokia for a commercial of the Nokia 5300.
You’ll remember it, too, from the weird GAP television advert in which both members of Daft Punk dance with Juliette Lewis while wearing their robotic helmets and gloves as well as GAP denim shirts and jeans. Here’s a straight-up love song full of longing and desire. The track would introduce the work of Daft Punk to a new audience of hip-hop fans when Kanye sampled it. It’s easy to picture the masked robots having an awful lot of fun tinkering around with the production on this one, pitch-shifting the vocals in a million different ways and adding multiple sonic layers to the same track. One of their more playful and experimental tracks, this ‘Discovery’ highlight employed an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach. ‘Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger’ (2001) Its cultural impact cannot be understated either: since landing at the turn of the century, this slice of dance-pop perfection has kept audiences across the globe dancing wildly and singing at the top of their lungs.
There’s just something about it that hits all the right spots: as soon as the immediately uplifting beat kicks in, the robots deliver a slice of electro euphoria that’s arguably not been beaten. The ultimate party anthem, this instantly recognisable banger and stand out of their ‘Discovery’ album sounds just as massive today as when it was released 21 years ago. The video finishes with a pair of robot hands alongside the dates 1993-2021. When one of them hits a button, an explosion goes off and the screen turns to black. And that’s without delving into their countless iconic music videos which also changed the game in terms of visuals.Īfter 28 years of changing the music world, they announced the split with an eight-minute video called Epilogue, the pair seen in the desert in their trademark futuristic helmets.
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More unpredictably, they also soundtracked the Disney movie Tron: Legacy. They were sampled by Kanye West on ‘Stronger’ appeared fully masked on a surreal GAP advert collaborated with The Weeknd and bagged an Album of the Year award at the 2014 Grammys for 2013’s ‘Random Access Memories’, which featured collaborations with Nile Rodgers and Pharrell Williams. And the Parisian pair soon became world-renowned for their now-iconic displays of anonymity too. Since their 1997 debut album ‘Homework’ spawned instant hits including ‘Around the World’, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo developed the sound of French house internationally. It’s no understatement to say that Daft Punk, who announced their split today, are one of the most influential electronic acts of all time.
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